theluketaylor

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by theluketaylor 3y ago
> It’s past time to reform the CAFE standards to incentivize smaller trucks Even neutralizing the CAFE standards to stop incentivizing bigger trucks would be a huge victory. Reducing the fuel economy target for larger vehicle footprints
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Apple has a slam dunk case to place a ton of barriers on browser vendors being allowed to JIT code due to the risk to the rest of the platform and the user's data. Little emulators for NES and Sega Genesis are not going to meet those b
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by theluketaylor 3y ago
But the DMA also requires (not just allows) platform owners to maintain the security of their platform. Many of the security model restrictions for iOS that app developers bump into are unlikely to be lifted by Apple. Most of the places App
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You're absolutely right; I posted the wrong link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfA0ftgWI7U
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Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering recently did a great demo of this. He was able to pull his car in neutral and an empty train car on rails with roughly the same force. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGhBHrr5CYQ
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The signalling won't work, so nothing will happen.
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Porsche Taycan has optional AC charge ports on both sides. DC charging is single side.
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> If people can't repair it then they buy a new one If apple has sinister intentions why are iphones supported by software updates much longer than any equivalent android device from the same era? Not everything is a conspiracy. Som
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I’m not sure Apple is purposefully making things unrepairable. It’s just they have several priorities ahead of repairability like size and packaging, water and dust intrusion, and anti-theft. It does functionally mean Apple devices are very
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by theluketaylor 3y ago
Your categories are largely correct, but #1 is way bigger than you think and not just about performance (unless it's the performance of being seen owning the car). For example, most pickup trucks are status symbols and lifestyle choice
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> But flights are often cheaper in Europe too despite subsidies for rail That's because intra-EU flights are also highly subsidized, especially around taxes for fuel. Decades ago the EU punted on the complex topic of charging taxes
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The CityNerd youtube channel recently did a list of city pairs ideally suited for high speed rail based on Spain's own network. spoiler alert: the northeast corridor plays a pretty heavy part, but it's not the only place in the US
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> And you make a lot of unsupported assumptions about commercial areas all being contaminated. That comment was specifically about industrial, not commercial. We agree on redeveloping unused commercial space, but I suspect you wouldn&#x2
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That's only true when you can ignore building codes on things like loft stairs and other space-stealers. ADUs in my city must be permanent structures that meet all codes and be fully inspected throughout the build. Anything under 500 s
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by theluketaylor 3y ago
That's all only a problem when supply of housing is constricted, which it has been for generations in all urban spaces. Otherwise it's just wealth generation. It's also a problem when economic activity is limited to a handful
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You're reading the demand/supply situation backwards. Even with all the construction in Brooklyn, supply is failing to meet demand, therefore prices are going up. We've failed to meet supply in urban spaces for several genera
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> The city should work with architects to develop models for housing types that are pre-approved Maybe I'm late to the party, but I recently found out some cities are doing exactly that and I'd love to see it become extremely c
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Zoning alone can only affect prices when there is an arbitrage opportunity to build something in location A that isn't possible in nearby location B. When entire cities upzone across the board like Minneapolis there is no arbitrage opp
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How exactly is this a "more handouts for developers"? Removing zoning restrictions just makes building possible, it doesn't create any subsidies for building. Handouts for developers is opening good agricultural land for deve
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This is a real danger lurking among the zoning reform efforts we are seeing all over the english-speaking world. There are so many levers baked into the zoning code to prevent development that it's easy to produce a policy that appears
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When there isn't really a choice, fine build a deep station. Montreal is building a station 72m down, but it's driven by surrounding geography. What's a bad decision is deep tunnelling just because, like Toronto on the York s
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It would depend on the implementation. Cut and cover could be done in blocks rather than shutting down long corridors at a time, combined with legislation setting clear limits on affected compensation and their standing to sue over small de
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Deep stations are also unbelievably expensive. Deep tunnels are not that bad, but the resulting stations explode the budget for transit to the point getting the project green lit in the first place is nearly impossible. Plus with the same s
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There are multiple car factories in several different German cities directly connected to rail rapid transit. Many types of trips can be supported by public transit with the right investments.
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NYC needs a Paris RER clone more than any city in the world. The tracks already mainly exist, it’s just the operating model that doesn’t (and is the true innovation of RER). Run the regional rail exactly the same way you run the subway&#x2F
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Republicans dumped the border bill because Trump told Senators he wants the issue to run on, so it's not a signal on Ukraine at all. The bill was a huge concession from Democrats since it didn't include a path to citizenship for D
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The CCS spec allows for 500A and 1000V, so even more. Tesla gets around their 400V battery by using 620A+
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30 years on a design lifespan of 100+ years. If it were a 99 year lease on like the disaster that is the 407 I'd agree with you, but in this case the contract is well short of lifespan.
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The delivery and operation is P3, but the ownership remains firmly public. It will belong to the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority which is a Canadian Crown corporation controlled by Parliament. The consortium will get funding from the tolls
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Food distribution is an actual market with competition. A bridge over a river is a natural monopoly that Moroun abused like crazy to his personal enrichment. Canadian, not American and we tend to have a much more government-friendly positio

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